Banzai question

[Matt W]

Vince:

I agree completely. To date the Japanese are shown as uniformly high morale troops. This is especially true with the scenario situations developed to date, namely Guadalcanal, Alaska, Kokoda Trail, and the paratroopers (I have to plead ignorance about the quality of troops in Manchuria). I think this changes as we move to the real land war in Asia as they were not always able to put their best troops in place. MacArthur found highly variable troops as he leapfrogged up New Guinea and the millions of troops in China were successful not due to their own qualities but due to the Chinese poor leadership and morale (Consider a battle of a 7/5 morale force against a 5/4 morale force).

The Japanese were certainly fanatical but that does not make up for the poor training of their garrison forces.